Tell el-Retaba, season 2012/ Appendix: Tell el-Retaba 2012. Preliminary report on archaeobotanicalinvestigations

Abstract

The sixth season of fieldwork of the Tell el-Retaba Archaeological Mission has broughta number of significant results. For the first time remains of a Hyksos settlement (beside the previouslyknown cemetery) were uncovered. Exploration of a large, regularly planned building, dividedinto a number of standardized flats, brought new evidence for the reconstruction of the functionand organization of a strongly fortified town, which existed on the site during the TwentiethDynasty. Remains of a Third Intermediate Period settlement showed that after the New Kingdomthere was a clear change in the settlement pattern in Tell el-Retaba.

Keywords

• Tell el-Retaba
• Hyksos
• New Kingdom
• Third Intermediate Period
• fortress